Bicycle Playing Card Games

We live to play Canasta, when we are camping. It is SO much easier to play with actual Canasta cards. You don't have to remember the card values. Who wants to do all that thinking...I have to keep score. They haven't bent or warped. Standard size. Highly recommend

Nice deck of cards. Seems durable and shuffle easily. Would buy again!

My wife and I play games in the evenings like phase 10 and other card and board games. She had played canasta online and when she was younger with family. I had never played it. She recommended it one night that we get a set and add it to our games roster. I am so glad she did!! I am excellent at this game and have beaten her way more than she's beaten me!! Lol. It's really fun and strategic and not hard to learn at all. These cards have the points right on them making it easy to keep score! Add a set to your game roster and have fun!!

They are the standard for cards.

These have a pretty design on the back. They can be used for any other card games besides Canasta, but the 2's are marked as wilds and there are points for Canasta scoring on each card. Like other Bicycle cards, these have a nice feel, not too flimsy. They were not my first choice for Canasta cards. I wanted the Canasta Caliente cards but those are hard to find and cost a lot more than these Bicycle ones. The game rules in this pack for freezing the discard pile are a little different than Canasta rules in the Caliente game (even if you don't use the Caliente cards) and Hoyle's Rules of Games book. In the Bicycle instructions, black 3's are used to freeze the pile. In other rules, black 3's are simply stop cards (Canasta Caliente only had stop cards, no black 3's) that keep the next player from picking up from the discard pile. I'm just mentioning this because another buyedr may want to look up rule variations if they buy these cards. Also, the rules in this pack don't include instructions for 2 players. That doesn't make any difference in the cards, though. They are nice and I will order these again as gifts.

Why buy a Canasta deck anyway? First of all, you need two extra jokes, so unless you have two decks with the same backs and wearing, you need a Canasta deck. Second of all, if you have never played Canasta (as I myself have not), or if you want to teach your friends, having the point value on the cards is a big help. There is also a star symbol for special cards and the points are in tastefully small print underneath the card name. The deuces have "Wild!" in big letters right in the middle, which I thought was a nice touch. Printed instructions instead of just web support! Leave your Hoyle's paperback at home and your phone in your pocket. The backs are quite pretty, with mirror images of a hand fan with a bicycle with festoonery beneath and antique scrolling all around, first introduced in 1894. Made in USA. Play the game born in Uruguay that spread to Argentina and then America to become the most popular card game in the states in 1953, known at first as "Argentinian Rummy".

Best ones to buy especially when they’re on sale

I really like these cards they are sturdy enough to shuffle and this is exactly what I was looking for. I also like The Point on the corner of the card.